Robert Kuttner

Hard Labor

Robert Kuttner | Posted 10.22.2009 | Business


Robert Kuttner

There are three parts to the woes of American workers -- falling wages, rising unemployment, and insecurity about the future. More robust policies could improve all three.

Think Again: Dick Cheney's Post Presidency

Eric Alterman | Posted 06.29.2009 | Media


Eric Alterman

Crossposted with the Center for American Progress Eric Alterman, Danielle Ivory Former President George W. Bush recently mused with the press about...

7 Days: Kuttner on Economic Crisis, with Huffington, Reagan & Green

Mark Green | Posted 01.13.2009 | Politics


Mark Green

While Republicans throw $700 billion to Wall Street but complain about a $14 billion loan for blue collar workers, Bob Kuttner explains why this should be a transforming economic and political moment for Obama.

Who Wasn't On Stage With Obama and Should Have Been?

Steve Clemons | Posted 12.09.2008 | Politics


Steve Clemons

I'm not satisfied with the roster of economic personalities and thinkers we see Barack Obama mixing with.

A Fine Mess

Robert Kuttner | Posted 10.24.2008 | Home


Robert Kuttner

The bailout bill will enable Obama to assume one of his favorites stances -- the progressive who bridges differences. He can claim that the unified Democrats dramatically improved a flawed and self-interested Republican bill.

Watching History Unfold

Jared Bernstein | Posted 10.22.2008 | Politics


Jared Bernstein

You hear that implosion reverberating through financial markets? It's the sound of decades of conservative ideology collapsing.

Little Orphan Fannie

Robert Kuttner | Posted 10.09.2008 | Home


Robert Kuttner

Here is the cycle: government invents something virtuous. The private market takes it over, loses hundreds of billions. Government then bails it out. Surely there is an Obama teachable moment here.

Conservative Book Marketing vs Progressive Book Marketing

J.S. McDougall | Posted 10.06.2008 | Media


J.S. McDougall

When it comes to the mass marketing of ideas, the conservatives have been embarrassing the progressives for years. I attribute this to the simple fact...

Obama's Challenge, Part I: The Rhetoric

Robert Kuttner | Posted 09.28.2008 | Politics


Robert Kuttner

What Obama needs is some of what Biden did last night, speaking personally of what American families worry about

A Tale of Two Obama Books: Why Do Progressives Still Not Get It?

Jennifer Nix | Posted 09.20.2008 | Media


Jennifer Nix

Obama Nation is a pathetic excuse for a book and is just one more example of how the right effectively moves their lies into the national discourse while the left fails to do so with progressive ideas.

Obama And The End Of Reaganomics

Robert Kuttner | Posted 09.20.2008 | Home


Robert Kuttner

A President Obama's greatest challenge would be to reverse the ideological assumptions of the past three decades and then to use affirmative government to deliver not just economic recovery but a just and balanced economy and a revitalized democracy.

Barack Obama And The Hope Of Audacity

Robert Kuttner | Posted 09.19.2008 | Home


Robert Kuttner

Obama, in his books and speeches, has been almost obsessed with the idea that people are sick of partisan bickering. Yet he also has claimed the identity of a resolute progressive. Can he be both?